I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.